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A modern os is vastly more complex than what Linus was working with in the early 1990s. Recall that the web had just been invented at that point.
by jnbiche 8y ago
A modern os is vastly more complex than what Linus was working with in the early 1990s. Recall that the web had just been invented at that point.
- hedora 8y agoI’m not sure I buy this. X86 hardware diversity exploded shortly after Linux took off, which gave more popular operating systems a huge incumbent advantage. However, now that Moore’s law has petered out, you can target Intel’s current mainstream SoC, and you have a bootable product. Hopefully this translates into more competition in the operating system kernel space.
- zapzupnz 8y agoI'm not sure I see the link between your comment and the one to which you're replying. GP is saying that the expected components that make up a modern operating system, including things that might be seen to be 'trivial' such as full USB 3.0+ support; a full, robust networking stack; the sorts of security and protections against modern methods of attack from bad actors; all on top of modern, efficient, and possibly even forward-thinking APIs that make developing for the OS efficient and even a joy for developers — these things are neither trivial, easy, or quick to do. Whereas you're talking about just hardware, which is not even close to the whole story when it comes to an OS in 2019.
- benj111 8y agoFor the record, I didn't say 'trivial'. I said basic, in the sense of USB 3 is a basic component I would expect to see in an modern OS. I did not, and do not claim that it would be trivial to implement.
- zapzupnz 8y agoYou're not even the person about whose comment I was referring.
- benj111 8y agoIt was either me or Jnbiche, and jnbiche is saying the opposite of what you're saying he's saying, whereas if you squint a bit I did, and I may not have been your gp, but was the gp of the person you were referring to. So you see my confusion.